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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey guys, and welcome to the podcast. Is Alice Adamok,

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Speaker 1: the science editor at how stuff works dot com. And

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Speaker 1: this is Robert Lamp, science writerer at how stuff works

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Speaker 1: dot com. And if let me stop you right now

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Speaker 1: because this is actually a second the second part of

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Speaker 1: the two part series. Yeah, we left you last time

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Speaker 1: with the search for offshore I I mean, lot you

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Speaker 1: in a real cliffhanger. Yeah, unless you didn't listen to

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Speaker 1: the last one, in which case you have idea what

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Speaker 1: we're talking about. Yeah, in the last just to catch

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Speaker 1: you up previously unlost, this is what happened. Um. We

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Speaker 1: we were talking about how how oil companies sniff out

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Speaker 1: and and actually listen for, uh the tailtale signs of

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Speaker 1: petroleum hidden under the c floor. And when they think

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Speaker 1: they they found something, they did these exploratory well and

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Speaker 1: you know, get a get a core sample forget what

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Speaker 1: looks like it's going to be profitable, it looks like

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Speaker 1: they can actually live off this thing for ten to

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Speaker 1: twenty years, then uh, then it's time to start harvesting

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Speaker 1: the oil and that's where we are now harvesting the

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Speaker 1: oil harvesting That makes me think of like you know,

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Speaker 1: this all stuff, the stuff all used to be biomass.

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Speaker 1: That's true, very good point, Roberts. Yeah, so a lot

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Speaker 1: of this is based on your your article how offshore

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Speaker 1: drilling Ricks, which we are going to refer you to

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Speaker 1: guys to and we did a little bit in the

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's hard to picture and especially as we get

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Speaker 1: into some of these platforms today, you may just want

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Speaker 1: to check them out around the site. And in the article. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've got some cool illustrations and a lot of really

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Speaker 1: jazzy photos of offshore oil rigs. Right, so production gets going,

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Speaker 1: and what are you gonna need to do. You need

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Speaker 1: to get all that oil up. So you're gonna build

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Speaker 1: the rigs are attached to the ocean, floor and using

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Speaker 1: these tethering cables. And again this comes into play when

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Speaker 1: and then one platform can have as many as eight wells.

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Speaker 1: all this effort to get it out there, You're gonna

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Speaker 1: you may remember from there will be blood. There's a

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Speaker 1: So the drill can't, you know, come in one long piece,

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Speaker 1: and you know, it bears to be said that, of course,

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Speaker 1: So the research continues, techniques continue to improve and figure

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Speaker 1: So it's like there's a there's continues to be a

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Speaker 1: say renewable sources of energy as well. Well. Yeah, prevent

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Speaker 1: any of you guys if you have experienced with offshore

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